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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%287%29-manifold | In mathematics, a Spin(7)-manifold is an eight-dimensional Riemannian manifold whose holonomy group is contained in Spin(7). Spin(7)-manifolds are Ricci-flat and admit a parallel spinor. They also admit a parallel 4-form, known as the Cayley form, which is a calibrating form for a special class of submanifolds called C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Taylor%20%28philosopher%29 | Richard Clyde Taylor (November 5, 1919 – October 30, 2003) was an American philosopher renowned for his contributions to metaphysics. He was also an internationally known beekeeper.
Biography
Taylor received his PhD at Brown University, where his supervisor was Roderick Chisholm. He taught at Brown University, Columbi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debye%E2%80%93Waller%20factor | The Debye–Waller factor (DWF), named after Peter Debye and Ivar Waller, is used in condensed matter physics to describe the attenuation of x-ray scattering or coherent neutron scattering caused by thermal motion. It is also called the B factor, atomic B factor, or temperature factor. Often, "Debye–Waller factor" is use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin%20M.%20Capps | Edwin M. Capps (December 23, 1860 – January 16, 1938) was an American Democratic politician from California.
Biography
Capps was born 1860 in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father was Thomas J. Capps, professor of mathematics at East Tennessee University. He grew in Shelbyville, Illinois and his family moved to Golden, Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danishefsky%20Taxol%20total%20synthesis | The Danishefsky Taxol total synthesis in organic chemistry is an important third Taxol synthesis published by the group of Samuel Danishefsky in 1996 two years after the first two efforts described in the Holton Taxol total synthesis and the Nicolaou Taxol total synthesis. Combined they provide a good insight in the ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylsilyl%20chloride | Trimethylsilyl chloride, also known as chlorotrimethylsilane is an organosilicon compound (silyl halide), with the formula , often abbreviated or TMSCl. It is a colourless volatile liquid that is stable in the absence of water. It is widely used in organic chemistry.
Preparation
TMSCl is prepared on a large scale by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Spiropulu | Maria Spiropulu (; ) is a Greek particle physicist. She is the Shang-Yi Ch'en Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
Biography
Maria Spiropulu received her bachelor's degree in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1993, and obtained her PhD with the CDF experiment from Harv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20lattice | In mathematics, the -dimensional integer lattice (or cubic lattice), denoted , is the lattice in the Euclidean space whose lattice points are -tuples of integers. The two-dimensional integer lattice is also called the square lattice, or grid lattice. is the simplest example of a root lattice. The integer lattice is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/186%20%28number%29 | 186 (one hundred [and] eighty-six) is the natural number following 185 and preceding 187.
In mathematics
There is no integer with exactly 186 coprimes less than it, so 186 is a nontotient. It is also never the difference between an integer and the total of coprimes below it, so it is a noncototient.
There are 186 dif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20G.%20Hewitt | Paul G. Hewitt (born December 3, 1931) is an American physicist, former boxer, uranium prospector, author, and cartoonist. Born in Saugus, Massachusetts, Hewitt lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife.
Conceptual physics
In 1964, Hewitt began his teaching career at the City College of San Francisco. In 1980 he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent%20%28disambiguation%29 | A tangent, in geometry, is a straight line through a point on a curve that has the same direction at that point as the curve.
Tangent may also refer to:
Mathematics
Analogous concepts for surfaces and higher-dimensional smooth manifolds, such as the tangent space
More generally, in geometry, two curves are said to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST%20Robotics%20Competition | FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year's game that weigh up to . Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, placing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superb | Superb may refer to:
Škoda Superb car
, nine Royal Navy ships
The Superb, a railroad car used by US President Warren G. Harding
SuperB, a proposed particle physics facility in Italy
Grevillea 'Superb', a widely grown grevillea (shrub) cultivar
Superb, subsidiary of Hybe Corporation
The Superbs, a 1960s female R&B gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Gerwig | Robert Gerwig (1820–1885) was a German civil engineer.
Gerwig was born on 2 May 1820 in Karlsruhe, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, and attended the Großherzogliches Polytechnikum (now known as Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) where he studied civil engineering, primarily road construction.
In the 1860s, Gerwigs attent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signcryption | In cryptography, signcryption is a public-key primitive that simultaneously performs the functions of both digital signature and encryption.
Encryption and digital signature are two fundamental cryptographic tools that can guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation. Until 1997, they were viewed as i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman%20bomb%20tester | The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-tester is a quantum mechanics thought experiment that uses interaction-free measurements to verify that a bomb is functional without having to detonate it. It was conceived in 1993 by Avshalom Elitzur and Lev Vaidman. Since their publication, real-world experiments have confirmed that their the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor%20code | In computer science, Raptor codes (rapid tornado; see Tornado codes) are the first known class of fountain codes with linear time encoding and decoding. They were invented by Amin Shokrollahi in 2000/2001 and were first published in 2004 as an extended abstract. Raptor codes are a significant theoretical and practical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20value | The adaptive value represents the combined influence of all characters which affect the fitness of an individual or population.
Definition
Adaptive value is an essential concept of population genetics. It represents usefulness of a trait that can help an organism to survive in its environment. This heritable trait t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Philipp%20von%20Wurzelbauer | Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (also spelled Wurzelbaur, Wurzelbau, Wurtzelbaur, Wurtzelbau) (28 September 1651 – 21 July 1725) was a German astronomer.
Biography
A native of Nuremberg, Wurzelbauer was a merchant who became an astronomer. As a youth, he was keenly interested in mathematics and astronomy but had been ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%E2%80%93temporal%20reasoning | Spatial–temporal reasoning is an area of artificial intelligence that draws from the fields of computer science, cognitive science, and cognitive psychology. The theoretic goal—on the cognitive side—involves representing and reasoning spatial-temporal knowledge in mind. The applied goal—on the computing side—involves d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza-Baylis%E2%80%93Hillman%20reaction | The aza-Baylis–Hillman reaction or aza-BH reaction in organic chemistry is a variation of the Baylis–Hillman reaction and describes the reaction of an electron deficient alkene, usually an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound, with an imine in the presence of a nucleophile. The reaction product is an allylic amine. The re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accelerators%20in%20particle%20physics | A list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed prior to the separation of particle physics from that field, are also included. Although a modern accelerator complex usually has several stages of accelerators, on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Instrumentation%20Module | The Nuclear Instrumentation Module (NIM) standard defines mechanical and electrical specifications for electronics modules used in experimental particle and nuclear physics. The concept of modules in electronic systems offers enormous advantages in flexibility, interchange of instruments, reduced design effort, ease in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BINP | BINP may refer to:
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Russia
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Allen%20%28author%29 | Jerome Allen (1830–1894) was an American educator and author, born in Westminster, Vermont.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1851, then presided over several institutions in the Western United States from 1851 to 1885.
Books
Handbook of Experimental Chemistry (1876)
Short Studies in English (1886–7)
Mind ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across | Across may refer to:
Technology and engineering
Across Language Server, a software platform
ACROSS Project, an R&D project in social robotics
Suzuki Across (motorcycle), a motorcycle manufactured by Suzuki
Suzuki Across (crossover), an automobile based on the Toyota RAV4
Arts and entertainment
Across Entertainme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20and%20negative%20parts | In mathematics, the positive part of a real or extended real-valued function is defined by the formula
Intuitively, the graph of is obtained by taking the graph of , chopping off the part under the x-axis, and letting take the value zero there.
Similarly, the negative part of f is defined as
Note that both f+ and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaas%20Kuiper | Nicolaas Hendrik Kuiper (; 28 June 1920 – 12 December 1994) was a Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test and proving Kuiper's theorem. He also contributed to the Nash embedding theorem.
Kuiper studied at University of Leiden in 1937-41, and worked as a secondary school teacher of mathematics in Dordrecht in 1942... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic%20conduction | In mesoscopic physics, ballistic conduction (ballistic transport) is the unimpeded flow (or transport) of charge carriers (usually electrons), or energy-carrying particles, over relatively long distances in a material. In general, the resistivity of a material exists because an electron, while moving inside a medium, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein%20automaton | In computer science, a Levenshtein automaton for a string w and a number n is a finite-state automaton that can recognize the set of all strings whose Levenshtein distance from w is at most n. That is, a string x is in the formal language recognized by the Levenshtein automaton if and only if x can be transformed into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration%20state%20function | In quantum chemistry, a configuration state function (CSF), is a symmetry-adapted linear combination of Slater determinants. A CSF must not be confused with a configuration. In general, one configuration gives rise to several CSFs; all have the same total quantum numbers for spin and spatial parts but differ in their i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectics | Plectics (from Greek πλεκτός plektos, "woven") is the name that Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Laureate in Physics, has suggested for the research area described by Gell-Mann as "a broad transdisciplinary subject covering aspects of simplicity and complexity as well as the properties of complex adaptive systems, including c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dauphin%20Island%20Sea%20Lab | The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) is Alabama's primary marine education and research center. DISL is the home site of the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium and was founded by an act of the Alabama State Legislature in 1971. It also has a public aquarium specializing in estuarine organisms, the George F. Crozier ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef%20Beck | József Beck (Budapest, Hungary, February 14, 1952) is a Harold H. Martin Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University.
His contributions to combinatorics include the partial colouring lemma and the Beck–Fiala theorem in discrepancy theory, the algorithmic version of the Lovász local lemma, the two extremes theorem i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott%20Sober | Elliott R. Sober (born 6 June 1948) is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Sober is noted for his work in philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science.
Education and career
Sober earned his Ph.D in philosophy ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph%20Goclenius%20the%20Younger | Rudolph Goclenius the Younger (born Rudolph Göckel; 22 August 1572 – 3 March 1621) was a German physician and professor at Philipps University of Marburg.
Goclenius was born in Wittenberg, the oldest son of Rudolph Goclenius, who was also professor of physics, logic, mathematics and ethics at Marburg. He enrolled at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%E2%80%93Khinchin%20theorem | In applied mathematics, the Wiener–Khinchin theorem or Wiener–Khintchine theorem, also known as the Wiener–Khinchin–Einstein theorem or the Khinchin–Kolmogorov theorem, states that the autocorrelation function of a wide-sense-stationary random process has a spectral decomposition given by the power spectral density of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular%20variety | In mathematics, a supersingular variety is (usually) a smooth projective variety in nonzero characteristic such that for all n the slopes of the Newton polygon of the nth crystalline cohomology are all n/2 . For special classes of varieties such as elliptic curves it is common to use various ad hoc definitions of "supe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho%20%28disambiguation%29 | Groucho Marx (1890–1977) was an American comedian
Groucho could also refer to:
Groucho: A Life in Revue, a musical revue about the life of the comedian
Groucho Club, a private arts club in London
Groucho, a supporting character in the comic book series Dylan Dog
Groucho, a transcription-inhibiting factor in genet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Masters | Alexander Wright Masters is an English author, screenwriter, and worker with the homeless. He lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Masters is the son of authors Dexter Masters and Joan Brady. He was educated at Bedales School, and took a first in physics from King's College London. He then went to St Edmund's College,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collidinium%20p-toluenesulfonate | Collidinium p-toluenesulfonate or CPTS is a salt between p-toluenesulfonic acid and collidine (2,4,6-trimethylpyridine). It is used as a mild glycosylation catalyst in chemistry.
References
Pyridines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20V.%20Oppenheim | Alan Victor Oppenheim (born 1937) is a professor of engineering at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a principal investigator in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), at the Digital Signal Processing Group.
His research interests are in the general area of signal pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth%20Rees%20%28cricketer%29 | Gareth Peter Rees (born 8 April 1985) is a Welsh cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Glamorgan.
Rees was born in Swansea. He represented Wales U17s at rugby and was a prominent member of the successful Felinfoel Youth Rugby team. He graduated with first class honours... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet%20transform | In mathematics, a wavelet series is a representation of a square-integrable (real- or complex-valued) function by a certain orthonormal series generated by a wavelet. This article provides a formal, mathematical definition of an orthonormal wavelet and of the integral wavelet transform.
Definition
A function is calle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masataka%20Taketsuru | was a Japanese chemist and businessman. He is known as the founder of Japan's whisky industry and Nikka Whisky Distilling.
Born to a family that had owned a sake brewery since 1733, he traveled to Scotland in 1918 to study organic chemistry and distilling. He then returned to Japan establishing a whisky distillery at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20invasion%20biology%20terms | The need for a clearly defined and consistent invasion biology terminology has been acknowledged by many sources. Invasive species, or invasive exotics, is a nomenclature term and categorization phrase used for flora and fauna, and for specific restoration-preservation processes in native habitats. Invasion biology is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala%20school | Kerala school may refer to:
Kerala School Kalolsavam, an annual art competition for students in Kerala
Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, in Kerala between the 14th and 16th centuries CE
Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode, in Kunnamangalam near Kozhikode City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Jozsa | Richard Jozsa is an Australian mathematician who holds the Leigh Trapnell Chair in Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where his research investigates quantum information science. A pioneer of his field, he is the co-author of the Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm and on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20neuroscience | Social neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field devoted to understanding the relationship between social experiences and biological systems. Humans are fundamentally a social species, rather than solitary. As such, Homo sapiens create emergent organizations beyond the individual—structures that range from dyads, fami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20wavelet | In mathematics, a dual wavelet is the dual to a wavelet. In general, the wavelet series generated by a square-integrable function will have a dual series, in the sense of the Riesz representation theorem. However, the dual series is not itself in general representable by a square-integrable function.
Definition
Given ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Andrews%20%28mathematician%29 | George Eyre Andrews (born December 4, 1938) is an American mathematician working in special functions, number theory, analysis and combinatorics.
Education and career
He is currently an Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He did his undergraduate studies at Oregon State University and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel%20Derman | Emanuel Derman (born 1945) is a South African-born academic, businessman and writer. He is best known as a quantitative analyst, and author of the book My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance.
He is a co-author of Black–Derman–Toy model, one of the first interest-rate models, and the Derman–Kani local v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos%20Ori | Amos Ori (, born 1956) is a professor of Physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. He received media attention in 2005 when he proposed, in a letter to Physical Review Letters, what he claimed was a more "realistic" model for time travel.
See also
Wormhole
References
External links
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposition%20%28aerosol%20physics%29 | In the physics of aerosols, deposition is the process by which aerosol particles collect or deposit themselves on solid surfaces, decreasing the concentration of the particles in the air. It can be divided into two sub-processes: dry and wet deposition. The rate of deposition, or the deposition velocity, is slowest fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96ssur%20Skarph%C3%A9%C3%B0insson | Össur Skarphéðinsson (pronounced ; born 19 June 1953) is an Icelandic politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from February 2009 to May 2013.
Össur matriculated from the Reykjavík Grammar School in 1973, and gained a BS in biology from the University of Iceland in 1979, and a doctorate from the Universit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilpotent%20Lie%20algebra | In mathematics, a Lie algebra is nilpotent if its lower central series terminates in the zero subalgebra. The lower central series is the sequence of subalgebras
We write , and for all . If the lower central series eventually arrives at the zero subalgebra, then the Lie algebra is called nilpotent. The lower central... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear%20control | Nonlinear control theory is the area of control theory which deals with systems that are nonlinear, time-variant, or both. Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that is concerned with the behavior of dynamical systems with inputs, and how to modify the output by changes in the in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiu-Yuen%20Cheng | Shiu-Yuen Cheng (鄭紹遠) is a Hong Kong mathematician. He is currently the Chair Professor of Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Cheng received his Ph.D. in 1974, under the supervision of Shiing-Shen Chern, from University of California at Berkeley. Cheng then spent some years as a post-doc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubator%20%28culture%29 | An incubator is a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures. The incubator maintains optimal temperature, humidity and other conditions such as the CO2 and oxygen content of the atmosphere inside. Incubators are essential for much experimental work in cell biology, microbiology and mole... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Ernest%20Fay | Professor Charles Ernest Fay (1846–1931) was an American alpinist and educator.
Biography
He was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1868 at Tufts College and became instructor in mathematics there in 1869, and professor of modern languages in 1871. He was a founder of the Modern Language Association of A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara | Ara may refer to:
Biology
Ara (bird), a genus of parrots
Ara (fish) (Niphon spinosus), a species of fish
L-arabinose operon, also known as ara
Places
Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia
Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia
Ara, Bihar, a city in India
Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India
Ara, Ranchi, a town in J... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prato%20reaction | The Prato reaction is a particular example of the well-known 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides to olefins. In fullerene chemistry this reaction refers to the functionalization of fullerenes and nanotubes. The amino acid sarcosine reacts with paraformaldehyde when heated at reflux in toluene to an ylide whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Advanced%20Technologies | The Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) is a public magnet program in St. Petersburg, Florida, attached to Lakewood High School and part of the Pinellas County Schools district. Its primary focus is mathematics, science, and technology. It is a member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Kent%20%28chemist%29 | Stephen B. H. Kent (born December 12, 1945, in Wellington, New Zealand) is a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago. While professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the early 1990s he pioneered modern ligation methods for the total chemical synthesis of proteins. He was the inventor of native chemical l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrifield%20resin | Merrifield Resin is a cross-linked polystyrene resin that carries a chloromethyl functional group. Merrifield resin is named after its inventor, Robert Bruce Merrifield (1984 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry), and used in solid-phase synthesis. The material is typically available as white beads. These beads are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Harry%20Vestine | Ernest Harry Vestine (May 9, 1906 – July 18, 1968) was an American geophysicist and meteorologist.
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Swedish parents. At the age of two his family moved to Alberta, Canada, where he was raised. He earned a B.S. in math and physics in 1931 from the University of Alberta. The follo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-beard%20effect | The green-beard effect is a thought experiment used in evolutionary biology to explain selective altruism among individuals of a species.
The idea of a green-beard gene was proposed by William D. Hamilton in his articles of 1964, and got the name from the example used by Richard Dawkins ("I have a green beard and I w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal%20Nebez | Jamal Nebez (; 1 December 1933 – 8 December 2018) was a Kurdish linguist, mathematician, politician, author, translator and writer. He studied Islamic law, philosophy, theology, physics and mathematics at the University of Baghdad in the 1950s. In 1956, he prepared a stenciled script on algebra and in 1960, succeeded i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation | Decimation, Decimate, or variants may refer to:
Decimation (punishment), punitive discipline
Decimation (signal processing), reduction of digital signal's sampling rate
Decimation (comics), 2006 Marvel crossover spinoff House of M
Decimate (game show), 2015 BBC television
The Decimation, an event in the Marvel Ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%20method | The Moore method is a deductive manner of instruction used in advanced mathematics courses. It is named after Robert Lee Moore, a famous topologist who first used a stronger version of the method at the University of Pennsylvania when he began teaching there in 1911. (Zitarelli, 2004)
The way the course is conducted v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20C.%20Clark | Harry Camp Clark (June 8, 1883 – December 27, 1950) was an American Republican politician from California.
Early life
Harry Clark was born 1883 in Bay City, Michigan, to Herman and Melissa Clark. In 1907 he graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in Civil Engineering. After graduation, he worked in Mas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CfA%20Redshift%20Survey | The Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Redshift Survey was the first attempt to map the large-scale structure of the universe.
The first survey began in 1977 with the objective of calculating the velocities of the brighter galaxies in the nearby universe by measuring their redshifts at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20algorithm | A distributed algorithm is an algorithm designed to run on computer hardware constructed from interconnected processors. Distributed algorithms are used in different application areas of distributed computing, such as telecommunications, scientific computing, distributed information processing, and real-time process co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIMI | CIMI may refer to:
Catalina Island Marine Institute, a marine biology program for youth.
CIMI-FM, a modern rock radio station in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Clinical Information Modelling Initiative, a community of interest focused on health care models.
Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface, an information t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan%20Brandenburg | Bryan Brandenburg (born February 18, 1959 in Châteauroux, France) is a biophysicist, author, technology entrepreneur and former game programmer. Brandenburg is best known as co-founder of Zenerchi, Sculptured Software and Salt Lake Comic Con and Executive Producer at Engineering Animation, Inc.
Career
After completing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials%20informatics | Materials informatics is a field of study that applies the principles of informatics and data science to materials science and engineering to improve the understanding, use, selection, development, and discovery of materials. The term "materials informatics" is frequently used interchangeably with "data science", "mach... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Agricola%20Bauer | Louis Agricola Bauer (January 26, 1865 – April 12, 1932) was an American geophysicist, astronomer and magnetician.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1888, and he immediately started work for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. During 1895-1896, he was instructor in m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron%27s%20fountain | Heron's fountain is a hydraulic machine invented by the 1st century AD inventor, mathematician, and physicist Hero of Alexandria.
Heron studied the pressure of air and steam, described the first steam engine, and built toys that would spurt water, one of them known as Heron's fountain. Various versions of Heron's foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole%20map | Mole map may refer to:
Mole map (chemistry), a graphical representation of an algorithm
Mole map (dermatology), a medical record which records and image and the location of lesions and/or moles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain | Gain or GAIN may refer to:
Science and technology
Gain (electronics), an electronics and signal processing term
Antenna gain
Gain (laser), the amplification involved in laser emission
Gain (projection screens)
Information gain in decision trees, in mathematics and computer science
GAIN domain, a protein domain
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20cross | Under the law of dominance in genetics, an individual expressing a dominant phenotype could contain either two copies of the dominant allele (homozygous dominant) or one copy of each dominant and recessive allele (heterozygous dominant). By performing a test cross, one can determine whether the individual is heterozygo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point%20cross | In genetics, a three-point cross is used to determine the loci of three genes in an organism's genome.
An individual heterozygous for three mutations is crossed with a homozygous recessive individual, and the phenotypes of the progeny are scored. The two most common phenotypes that result are the parental gametes; the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward%E2%80%93Hoffmann%20rules | The Woodward–Hoffmann rules (or the pericyclic selection rules), devised by Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann, are a set of rules used to rationalize or predict certain aspects of the stereochemistry and activation energy of pericyclic reactions, an important class of reactions in organic chemistry. The rules ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20systems%20engineering%20and%20management | Earth systems engineering and management (ESEM) is a discipline used to analyze, design, engineer and manage complex environmental systems. It entails a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, engineering, environmental science, ethics and philosophy. At its core, ESEM looks to "rationally design and manage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20Roosevelt%20High%20School%20%28Maryland%29 | Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) is a Maryland public magnet high school specializing in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The school was established in 1976 at its current location in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States and is part of the Prince George's County Public Schools system. It was the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Physics%20of%20Meaning | The Physics of Meaning was an indie pop band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Its members included Daniel Hart and Alex Laraza, along with other live musicians and session members. They released two studio albums: the self-titled The Physics of Meaning on Bu Hanan Records in 2005, and Snake Charmer and Destiny at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20measure | In mathematics, the Peano–Jordan measure (also known as the Jordan content) is an extension of the notion of size (length, area, volume) to shapes more complicated than, for example, a triangle, disk, or parallelepiped.
It turns out that for a set to have Jordan measure it should be well-behaved in a certain restrict... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin%20%28satellite%29 | Odin is a Swedish satellite working in two disciplines: astrophysics and aeronomy, and it was named after Odin of Norse mythology. Within the field of astrophysics, Odin was used until the spring of 2007 aiding in the study of star formation. Odin is still used for aeronomical observations, including exploration of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Linnett | John Wilfrid Linnett FRS (3 August 1913 – 7 November 1975) was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1975. He was for many years a Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford, and a demonstrator in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
Education
He was born on 3 August 1913 in Coventry in En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobberich | Lobberich is a German village in North Rhine-Westphalia, situated close to the Dutch border at Venlo. It has a population of around 14,000 inhabitants. Since 1970 the town belongs to the municipality of Nettetal. The art historian Heribert Reiners was born here in 1884.
Overview
Traditional industries are textiles a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroso | In organic chemistry, nitroso refers to a functional group in which the nitric oxide () group is attached to an organic moiety. As such, various nitroso groups can be categorized as C-nitroso compounds (e.g., nitrosoalkanes; ), S-nitroso compounds (nitrosothiols; ), N-nitroso compounds (e.g., nitrosamines, ), and O-nit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolvent%20formalism | In mathematics, the resolvent formalism is a technique for applying concepts from complex analysis to the study of the spectrum of operators on Banach spaces and more general spaces. Formal justification for the manipulations can be found in the framework of holomorphic functional calculus.
The resolvent captures the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontorovich%E2%80%93Lebedev%20transform | In mathematics, the Kontorovich–Lebedev transform is an integral transform which uses a Macdonald function (modified Bessel function of the second kind) with imaginary index as its kernel. Unlike other Bessel function transforms, such as the Hankel transform, this transform involves integrating over the index of the fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr%20Stoletov | Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov (; 10 August 1839 – 27 May 1896) was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering, and professor in Moscow University. He was the brother of general Nikolai Stoletov.
Biography
Alexander Stoletov defended his doctoral dissertation in 1872 and became professor at Moscow Univer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20F.%20Carrier | George Francis Carrier (May 4, 1918 – March 8, 2002) was an engineer and physicist, and the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University. He was particularly noted for his ability to intuitively model a physical system and then deduce an analytical solution. He worked especially... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Kember | Norman Frank Kember (born 1931) is an emeritus professor of biophysics at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and a Christian pacifist active in campaigning on issues of war and peace. As a Baptist, he is a long-standing member of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America and the Fellowship of Rec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier%20function | In constrained optimization, a field of mathematics, a barrier function is a continuous function whose value on a point increases to infinity as the point approaches the boundary of the feasible region of an optimization problem. Such functions are used to replace inequality constraints by a penalizing term in the obj... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20S.%20Adams%20%28biologist%29 | David S. Adams is a Professor of Biology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Education
In 1974, Adams received his BS in physiology from Oklahoma State University.
In 1976, he obtained his MS in Biophysical Sciences from the University of Houston.
In 1979, he obtained his PhD Molecular Biology from the University of T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Kluyver | Albert Jan Kluyver ForMemRS (June 3, 1888 – May 14, 1956) was a Dutch microbiologist and biochemist.
Career
In 1926, Kluyver and Hendrick Jean Louis Donker published the now classic paper, "Die Einheit in der Biochemie" ("Unity in Biochemistry"). The paper helped establish Kluyver's vision that, at a biochemical level... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20Huxley | Hugh Esmor Huxley MBE FRS (25 February 1924 – 25 July 2013) was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. He was a graduate in physics from Christ's College, Cambridge. However, his education was interrupted for five years by the Second World War, during which he served ... |
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